The Frozen Throne: Alliance, Chapter 2: A Dark Covenant

In this mission, you start off with five spread-out bases. First, you must realize that it is impossible to defend even one of them. When you have accepted that fact, you should use them the best you can before they get overrun. Move the workers from the Western gold mines to the Eastern ones, so that they can mine more gold before they die. I’m still not sure whether you will gain gold from training one peasant at each Eastern Town Hall, but it shouldn’t matter too much. You should move all of your units to the further east (just watch out for creeps) — after the bases have been destroyed, they will be teleported back to the center island.

There is one strategy that greatly simplifies this mission. Note that you are on an island, the Naga are on your side and the only shipyard is on your island — this means that your opponents’ only way of attacking you is through air. Use this to your advantage and mass Dragonhawk Riders for intercepting any zeppelins heading your way. Doing this, you will save yourself tons of time. With Aerial Shackles you can get rid of Gargoyles and Frost Wyrms too, although the magic-immune Destroyers can be a problem. Make sure you always have at least one full army of these.

Using only your Naga and the Dragonhawk Riders, you should be able to reclaim all of the orange and purple bases without losing a single Naga. Remember to cloud the ziggurats.

You should have more than enough of both gold and lumber when you’re done. Note that the Undead never attack your expansions, so you won’t have to defend them. There should be no problems in destroying the green base. I first launched an assault to destroy their town hall, and then hunted down all the remaining acolytes. This rendered them completely helpless.

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